with the new Oracle decision which prompt reinstating the fetch flag, I'm back on thinking about reusing dev-java/icedtea, I've tried that before a long time ago and found out that it was missing features especially in the 3d section.

can anyone share what is the current status of the support?_________________Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
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with the new Oracle decision which prompt reinstating the fetch flag, I'm back on thinking about reusing dev-java/icedtea, I've tried that before a long time ago and found out that it was missing features especially in the 3d section.

can anyone share what is the current status of the support?

Yesterday i got rid of sun-java by the same reasons, everything is ok so far. Here is what i did:

1. emerge dev-java/icedtea-web dev-java/icedtea6-bin
2.eselect java-vm, eselect java-nsplugin
3.emerge -C dev-java/sun-jdk
4.and just in case emerge -1 virtual/jdk, revdep-rebuild_________________"Dear Enemy: may the Lord hate you and all your kind, may you be turned orange in hue, and may your head fall off at an awkward moment."
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with the new Oracle decision which prompt reinstating the fetch flag, I'm back on thinking about reusing dev-java/icedtea, I've tried that before a long time ago and found out that it was missing features especially in the 3d section.

can anyone share what is the current status of the support?

The following two bugs need to be fixed to patch a security bug that is several years old:

with the new Oracle decision which prompt reinstating the fetch flag, I'm back on thinking about reusing dev-java/icedtea, I've tried that before a long time ago and found out that it was missing features especially in the 3d section.

can anyone share what is the current status of the support?

The following two bugs need to be fixed to patch a security bug that is several years old:

If you are okay with using software that has known security vulnerabilities, feel free to install jogl from the java-overlay overlay.

can you elaborate more about the security vulnerabilities in portage's icedtea?_________________Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
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with the new Oracle decision which prompt reinstating the fetch flag, I'm back on thinking about reusing dev-java/icedtea, I've tried that before a long time ago and found out that it was missing features especially in the 3d section.

can anyone share what is the current status of the support?

The following two bugs need to be fixed to patch a security bug that is several years old:

As of today which one is preferred on a recent amd64 when it comes to speed? Most projects work with both, most project maintainers recommend using the SUN JRE.
On PPC I was comparing once icedtea to IBM JRE, there icedtea was even faster when using the Shark JIT, but those useflags disappeared. Today icedtea reports:

I'm using currently openjdk on 64 bit, haven't found any issues till now._________________Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
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